Best to outsource waste

Irefer to your front-page article “BCM Eats Last of Cash Reserves” (DD, March 7). This to me spells disaster as these reserves were there for absolute emergencies.

Council (ANC run) has now openly bowed down to the union Samwu, which has actually run it for the past 10 years – and run it into the ground with their demands and strikes and demolishing of assets. Every time their demands are met without retribution to the perpetrators of the destruction.

When has council ever refused to pay the non-workers, while the ones working are threatened with their lives? Pay overtime to striking solid waste removal staff?

Outsource that department. As for SCM, there is no material or stock in the stores for the maintenance departments to work with, so how must they perform? Outsource it too, and give the staff that really work to the departments that want to work.

Where is council going to collect the money? From the paying consumer of course! The dumb willing who grew up under apartheid and accepted everything that came their way.

It is time the ANC council showed some backbone and abolished illegal settlements whose residents steal electricity.

Switch those areas off whether there are a few paying consumers or not. This a social problem and has to be resolved politically. But of course it will not be, as those illegal ones keep the government in power.

Last but not least: most of the top management are not qualified for their jobs as they are political appointments. This is turning us into a ghost town instead of inviting investments with decent rates and tariffs and other incentives.

Can council give us a breakdown of how many small businesses have closed down in the last year?

What was the loss of income as a result of that?

What was the loss due to illegal electricity connections? We are on the road to nowhere fast.

– Johan Olivier, Gonubie